[in a well equipped sports room, a character rants] Someone has to say it… Some athletes have an advantage over others and it’s ruining sports!
[in a soccer field, a smug character points and replies] Damn right buddy, that’s why we should ban privileged kids from competitive sports: their wealth gives them access to better equipment, coaching, sparring partners, free time. it’s just unfair to the rest!
I remember having to do projects in school, working hard with the limited materials my family could afford, and using my creativity to make up for it to get a B.
Meanwhile, kids with rich parents went all-out, using materials I didn’t have access to, coming back with displays that their parents clearly helped them assemble, complete with polished, laminated reports. Naturally, their fancy projects got them As.
I also remember thinking what bullshit it was that the poorer kids got worse grades despite trying their best.
Then I grew up and realized it’s all part of the same crooked system. Of course the wealthier kids got better grades - it’s simply the start of a life-long advantage they had over the rest of us. There was no winning for the rest of us then, just as there’s no winning for the rest of us now.
They have themselves convinced that they did it on their own. Dad was a lawyer, paid for his son to be a lawyer, hired his son as his law firm. And it happens all the time in every industry. I’m fine with families setting up their children in the family business, it has always been done. The issue I have is that when everyone else comes up with ways to reduce the discrepancy, those same people cry and call it unfair and do everything they can to hold others back. It’s really sickening and that type of culture is worse than ever now that a ghoul has been installed to the White House that espouses rhetoric that denigrates the poor.